So my buddy Sue is taking my Level 1 class at the studio in my house. The room has cathedral ceilings and for the last few weeks a little black spider has started hanging out up there. When Sue comes into the room for class she looks for the spider and then she takes up residence as far away in the room as she can get from him. She’s made no bones about trying to hide it because she’s an honest friend and, I now know, an arachniphobe.

At the beginning of Monday’s class she walked in the room, looked for the spider but this time he had crawled within reach on the wall. So she got her husband to pick him up and sherpa him back outside. What a display on the ‘non-harming’ huh? So while this was happening a spider conversation ensued and it turned out half the people there had spent an inordinate amount of time, during class, watching this spider.

So I realized that while I’ve been talking about focusing on our body and breath in class, a whole bunch of them have been focusing on the 8-legged dude on the ceiling. It’s funny because I don’t have pictures in the room and work hard to minimize any distractions. And then along comes a spider.